Police can't really shoot someone approaching them with hostile intent in a non-lethal area. They can and will get sued for it.
I do wish that tasers and less-than-lethal ammunition would get used more often, though, since there are very few cases where you need to shoot to kill as an officer. Suffering from a bruise just doesn't have the same effect as an open gunshot wound, both in the media and in surviving. Even if this would bring about more instances of officers discharging their weapons, I feel like the increase in survival rate of the people on the other end would be appreciated by everyone involved.
You don't have a taser? You couldn't shoot in a non-lethal area?
There has to be a middle ground.
Police can't really shoot someone approaching them with hostile intent in a non-lethal area. They can and will get sued for it.
I do wish that tasers and less-than-lethal ammunition would get used more often, though, since there are very few cases where you need to shoot to kill as an officer. Suffering from a bruise just doesn't have the same effect as an open gunshot wound, both in the media and in surviving. Even if this would bring about more instances of officers discharging their weapons, I feel like the increase in survival rate of the people on the other end would be appreciated by everyone involved.